2019 Allsvenskan

The 2019 Allsvenskan, part of the 2019 Swedish football season, was the 95th season of Allsvenskan since its establishment in 1924. A total of 16 teams participated. AIK were the defending champions after winning the title in the previous season.

Allsvenskan

Season	2019
Champions	Djurgårdens IF 8th Allsvenskan title 12th Swedish championship title
Relegated	GIF Sundsvall AFC Eskilstuna
Champions League	Djurgårdens IF
Europa League	Malmö FF Hammarby IF
Top goalscorer	Mohamed Buya Turay (15 goals)
Biggest home win	IFK Göteborg 7–1 Östersunds FK (2 November 2019)
Biggest away win	AFC Eskilstuna 1–6 Hammarby IF (27 July 2019) Örebro SK 0–5 Malmö FF (2 November 2019)
Highest scoring	Hammarby IF 6–2 Falkenbergs FF (7 July 2019) Hammarby IF 6–2 IFK Göteborg (15 September 2019) IFK Göteborg 7–1 Östersunds FK (2 November 2019)
Longest winning run	8 matches Hammarby IF[1]
Longest unbeaten run	18 matches Malmö FF
Longest winless run	18 matches GIF Sundsvall
Longest losing run	7 matches Östersunds FK
Highest attendance	45,367 AIK 1–0 Djurgårdens IF (1 September 2019)
Lowest attendance	1,876 AFC Eskilstuna 4–1 BK Häcken (25 August 2019)
Average attendance	9,166
← 2018 2020 →

Djurgårdens IF won the Allsvenskan title, their first since 2005, their 8th overall and their 12th Swedish championship overall, in the 30th and final round on 2 November 2019 by playing a 2–2 tie in their away fixture against IFK Norrköping. This was also the second consecutive year that a team from Stockholm clinched the title.

Teams

Sundsvall

Helsingborg

Elfsborg

Gothenburg

AFC

Norrköping

Sirius

Falkenberg

Kalmar

Malmö

Stockholm

Örebro

Östersund

Stockholm teams
AIK
Djurgården
Hammarby

Gothenburg teams
Häcken
IFK Göteborg

Location of teams in 2019 Allsvenskan

A total of sixteen teams are contesting the league, including thirteen sides from the previous season, two promoted teams from the 2018 Superettan and one team from the 2018 Allsvenskan play-offs.

Dalkurd FF and Trelleborgs FF were relegated at the end of the 2018 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table, and were replaced by the 2018 Superettan champions Helsingborgs IF and runners-up Falkenbergs FF. Helsingborg make their return to Allsvenskan after a two-year absence, this will be their 67th season in the top flight. Falkenberg will take part in Allsvenskan for the fourth time, returning to Allsvenskan after a two-year absence.

The play-off spot was taken by AFC Eskilstuna, replacing IF Brommapojkarna. The team made it back to Allsvenskan after just one season in the second division, having been relegated in 2017.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Turf1	Stadium capacity1
AFC Eskilstuna	Eskilstuna	Tunavallen	Artificial	7,500
AIK	Stockholm	Friends Arena	Natural	50,000
BK Häcken	Gothenburg	Bravida Arena	Artificial	6,500
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
Falkenbergs FF	Falkenberg	Falcon Alkoholfri Arena	Natural	5,565
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	NP3 Arena	Artificial	7,700
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
Helsingborgs IF	Helsingborg	Olympia	Natural	16,500
IF Elfsborg	Borås	Borås Arena	Artificial	16,899
IFK Göteborg	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,600
IFK Norrköping	Norrköping	Nya Parken	Artificial	15,734
IK Sirius	Uppsala	Studenternas IP	Artificial	6,300
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	Natural	12,000
Malmö FF	Malmö	Eleda Stadion	Natural	22,500
Örebro SK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	Artificial	12,300
Östersunds FK	Östersund	Jämtkraft Arena	Artificial	8,466

• ¹ According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Allsvenskan.^[2]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Djurgårdens IF	Özcan Melkemichel	End of contract	November 15, 2018	Pre-season	Kim Bergstrand Thomas Lagerlöf	November 16, 2018
IK Sirius	Kim Bergstrand Thomas Lagerlöf	Resigned	November 15, 2018		Henrik Rydström	December 10, 2018
Kalmar FF	Henrik Rydström	End of contract	November 18, 2018		Magnus Pehrsson	November 27, 2018
Helsingborgs IF	Per-Ola Ljung	Sacked	June 15, 2019	14th	Henrik Larsson	June 16, 2019
Helsingborgs IF	Henrik Larsson	Resigned	August 23, 2019	12th	Olof Mellberg	September 3, 2019
GIF Sundsvall	Joel Cedergren	Sacked	August 30, 2019	16th	Tony Gustavsson	September 2, 2019
AFC Eskilstuna	Nemanja Miljanović	Promoted to Director of Football Operations	September 5, 2019	15th	Saulius Širmelis Saulius Cekanavicius	September 5, 2019
Kalmar FF	Magnus Pehrsson	Sacked	October 31, 2019	13th	Jens Nilsson	October 31, 2019

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Djurgårdens IF (C)	30	20	6	4	53	19	+34	66	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Malmö FF	30	19	8	3	56	16	+40	65	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3	Hammarby IF	30	20	5	5	75	38	+37	65
4	AIK	30	19	5	6	47	24	+23	62
5	IFK Norrköping	30	16	9	5	54	26	+28	57
6	BK Häcken	30	14	7	9	44	29	+15	49
7	IFK Göteborg	30	13	9	8	46	31	+15	48	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
8	IF Elfsborg	30	11	10	9	44	45	−1	43
9	Örebro SK	30	9	6	15	40	56	−16	33
10	Helsingborgs IF	30	8	6	16	29	49	−20	30
11	IK Sirius	30	8	5	17	34	51	−17	29
12	Östersunds FK	30	5	10	15	27	52	−25	25
13	Falkenbergs FF	30	6	7	17	25	62	−37	25
14	Kalmar FF (O)	30	4	11	15	22	47	−25	23	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	GIF Sundsvall (R)	30	4	8	18	31	50	−19	20	Relegation to the Superettan
16	AFC Eskilstuna (R)	30	4	8	18	23	55	−32	20

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. IFK Göteborg qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round by winning the 2019–20 Svenska Cupen.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Djurgårdens IF	6	2	1	1	1	1	4	7	6	5	3	2	2	2	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Malmö FF	10	12	8	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	2	3	2	4	3	3	2	2	2	1	3	2	2
Hammarby IF	8	10	13	7	13	8	7	4	4	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	5	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	3	3
AIK	11	11	5	8	4	9	8	5	5	3	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	3	2	3	2	2	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	4
IFK Norrköping	15	13	15	9	10	10	10	11	9	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	5
BK Häcken	7	4	2	2	7	6	3	3	3	2	5	5	4	5	4	4	6	4	5	5	5	4	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
IFK Göteborg	14	8	11	4	6	5	2	2	2	4	2	4	5	4	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
IF Elfsborg	9	15	9	10	3	3	5	8	7	7	7	8	8	8	9	10	8	9	10	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8
Örebro SK	13	16	16	15	16	14	14	13	13	11	12	9	11	12	12	11	9	8	8	9	9	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9
Helsingborgs IF	2	7	3	6	9	13	12	12	14	13	13	14	13	11	11	12	12	12	11	12	13	10	13	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
IK Sirius	3	1	4	5	8	11	13	14	11	12	9	12	9	9	10	9	11	11	12	13	12	12	10	11	11	11	11	12	11	11
Östersunds FK	12	5	10	12	5	4	6	6	8	9	10	10	10	10	8	8	10	10	9	10	10	11	11	13	13	13	13	11	12	12
Falkenbergs FF	4	9	12	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	16	16	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	16	14	13
Kalmar FF	16	14	14	11	11	12	11	9	10	10	11	11	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	11	11	13	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	14
GIF Sundsvall	5	3	7	14	12	7	9	10	12	14	14	13	14	14	14	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	15	15
AFC Eskilstuna	1	6	6	13	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	15	15	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	15	16	16

	Leader
	2019–20 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to 2020 Superettan

Source: everysport.com

Results

Home \ Away	AFC	AIK	BKH	DIF	FFF	GIFS	HAM	HIF	IFE	IFKG	IFKN	IKS	KFF	MFF	ÖSK	ÖFK
AFC Eskilstuna	—	2–4	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–6	1–1	2–2	3–1	0–2	0–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	0–1
AIK	2–1	—	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–0
BK Häcken	3–0	1–2	—	0–1	4–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–1	4–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Djurgårdens IF	3–0	0–2	2–0	—	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	3–1
Falkenbergs FF	1–0	1–5	0–3	0–3	—	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–0
GIF Sundsvall	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–4	3–1	—	2–3	1–2	1–2	0–2	4–4	2–1	1–2	3–1	1–2	1–1
Hammarby	3–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	6–2	3–0	—	2–1	5–2	6–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	5–1	4–0
Helsingborgs IF	2–1	1–3	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	—	1–2	1–2	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–4	2–0
IF Elfsborg	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	—	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	4–2	4–1
IFK Göteborg	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	—	0–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	0–1	7–1
IFK Norrköping	4–0	0–0	2–1	2–2	4–3	2–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	1–2	—	0–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	3–0
IK Sirius	3–2	0–2	3–4	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	2–4	2–4	0–2	—	3–0	0–1	3–4	1–1
Kalmar FF	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–3	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	—	0–5	1–1	1–1
Malmö FF	5–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	5–0	2–1	4–1	3–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	—	2–1	2–0
Örebro SK	3–1	2–1	1–2	0–3	4–0	0–0	2–3	0–1	2–2	2–2	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–5	—	2–0
Östersunds FK	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–2	3–2	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–3	—

Source: Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Relegation play-offs

The 14th-placed team of Allsvenskan met the third-placed team from 2019 Superettan in a two-legged tie on a home-and-away basis with the team from Allsvenskan finishing at home.

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IK Brage	0–2	Kalmar FF
	Report	Herrem 24' Fröling 61'

6 November 2019

19:00 CET

Domnarvsvallen, Borlänge

Attendance: 3,554

Referee: Martin Strömbergsson

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Kalmar FF	2–2	IK Brage
Aliti 61' Hallberg 86'	Report	Morsay 88' Kouakou 90+2'

10 November 2019

14:45 CET

Guldfågeln Arena, Kalmar

Attendance: 6,218

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim

Kalmar FF won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 2 November 2019^[3]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mohamed Buya Turay	Djurgårdens IF	15
2	Robin Söder	IFK Göteborg	14
	Muamer Tanković	Hammarby IF
4	Nikola Đurđić	Hammarby IF	13
	Markus Rosenberg	Malmö FF
6	Tarik Elyounoussi	AIK	11
	Henok Goitom	AIK
	Jordan Larsson	IFK Norrköping
	Paulinho	BK Häcken
	Carlos Strandberg	Örebro SK

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Alexander Kačaniklić	Hammarby IF	Falkenbergs FF	6–2	7 July 2019
Filip Rogić	Örebro SK	Falkenbergs FF	4–0	20 July 2019
Nikola Đurđić	Hammarby IF	AFC Eskilstuna	1–6	27 July 2019
Carlos Strandberg	Örebro SK	Helsingborgs IF	1–4	29 July 2019
Carlos Strandberg	Örebro SK	IK Sirius	3–4	24 August 2019
Robin Söder	IFK Göteborg	Kalmar FF	4–0	26 August 2019
Vladimir Rodić	Hammarby IF	Örebro SK	5–1	30 September 2019
Henok Goitom4 goals	AIK	Falkenbergs FF	1–5	20 October 2019

Monthly awards

Month	Allsvenskan Player of the Month
	Player	Club
April	Linus Hallenius	GIF Sundsvall
May	Tarik Elyounoussi	AIK
July	Marcus Danielson	Djurgårdens IF
August	Muamer Tanković	Hammarby IF
September	Sead Hakšabanović	IFK Norrköping
October	Darijan Bojanić	Hammarby IF

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Annual awards

Award[5]	Winner	Club
Player of the Year	Marcus Danielson	Djurgårdens IF
Goalkeeper of the Year	Isak Pettersson	IFK Norrköping
Defender of the Year	Marcus Danielson	Djurgårdens IF
Midfielder of the Year	Anders Christiansen	Malmö FF
Striker of the Year	Nikola Djurdjic	Hammarby IF
Breakthrough of the Year	Alhassan Yusuf	IFK Göteborg
Coach of the Year	Kim Bergstrand	Djurgårdens IF

See also

• Association football portal
• Sweden portal

Competitions 2019 Superettan 2019 Division 1 2018–19 Svenska Cupen 2019–20 Svenska Cupen

Team seasons 2019 AIK Fotboll season 2019 BK Häcken season 2019 Djurgårdens IF season 2019 Hammarby Fotboll season 2019 Malmö FF season